Claim · model-written summary
Carotenoid concentration in tomato rose with degree of maturity, by 57% on average.
- Taxon
- Solanum lycopersicum L.
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- degree of maturitye3
- Outcome
- concentration of carotenoidse3
- Direction
- increasede3
- Value
- 57 %e3
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Verbatim
e0“black tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) ʽSunchocolaʼ”
e3“In both groups the concentration of carotenoids and phenolics increased with the degree of maturity (on average 57 % and 8 % respectively)”
Title
Elena Coyago-Cruz; Mireia Corell; Alfonso Moriana; et al. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis 2021. doi:10.1016/j.jfca.2021.104220
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Regulated deficit irrigation did not change the size or weight of black tomato fruit relative to control.
- Association Phenolic concentration in tomato rose with degree of maturity, by 8% on average.
- Intervention effect In most cases, carotenoid, phenolic and sugar contents differed significantly between RDI and control irrigation treatments.
- Intervention effect Regulated deficit irrigation increased carotenoid levels of tomato fruit relative to control.